Stephen E. Kahn, Ph.D., D(ABCC), F(AACC)
Professor and Quality Medical Director, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director, Core Laboratory Operations and Near Patient Testing
Associate Director, Clinical Laboratories
Education:
Ph.D. Biochemistry: University of Illinois Medical Center (Chicago, IL)
Fellowship: Loyola University Medical Center - Clinical Chemistry (Maywood, IL)
Dr. Kahn’s publications
What motivated you to become a Pathologist?
After obtaining my undergraduate degree in Zoology, I was accepted to several coastal-based graduate schools in marine biology. However, during the year prior to graduate school, I also locally met a young woman, fell in love and decided I needed to stay in the Chicago area. We were both working in a business office in a small hospital where there was a Ph.D. clinical biochemist in the laboratory. He encouraged me to apply to local fellowship programs in biochemistry and microbiology. I was accepted into a graduate fellowship program in biochemistry at the University of Illinois Medical Center. Upon completion (1978), I was interested in postdoctoral training in clinical chemistry and was accepted into the two year fellowship program at Loyola University Medical Center. Upon completion (1980), I was asked to stay on as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology also serving as new junior clinical laboratory director. I have spent my entire career at this wonderful institution ever since.
What do you love most about Loyola Pathology?
It is the people that I work with that remains what I love most about Loyola Pathology - staff, students, residents, fellows and faculty.
What is one thing people may not know about you?
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, I bowled in two men's leagues per week.